Austin High's Lauren Lindsey - "LuLu" to friends and foes alike in the world of high school and travel softball - sent the ball across those healthy chunks of real estate during the All-Stars Sports Week doubleheader Wednesday night as the North ripped the South 11-0 and 12-1 at the Metro Kiwanis Sportsplex.

It led to an interesting postgame word association at the mere mention of the 6-foot-3 senior-to-be's name.

"Awesome!" North coach Brett Nave of East Limestone said of his team's MVP.

"Beast?" Huntsville High shortstop Natalie Matos added. "I mean, really. What she did was just crazy."

In the fourth inning of the first game, Lindsey's three-run homer to right-center was simply piling on, upping the North lead to 8-0. It did, however, usher in a three-homer in four at-bat sequence - Mortimer Jordan's Danae Hays hit a two-run blast and Pisgah's Shelby Holley followed with a solo shot - and its majestic flight elicited audible "ooohhs" from the stands above Field 2.

In the third inning of the second game, Lindsey's three-run homer to right-center erased a 1-0 deficit and effectively took away any hope of the South salvaging a split. The eight runs that followed in the fourth inning - the North had a nine-run fourth in the opener - proved as much.

"We were just killing it," Lindsey said. "Our sticks were on fire."

The All-Stars format isn't exactly set up for such big numbers. Every player bats in each game. For the North, that meant 18 hitters.

"It's difficult, because you know you might get just one at-bat," Lindsey said. "My first time up, I was really nervous (and flied out). But when I saw I was going to get another at-bat, I just relaxed and told myself 'This is just ball. Go out and play like normal.' "

And hit a ball halfway to Memorial Parkway.

"I'm always surprised when I hit a home run," she shrugged.

The second one, though, didn't come as a shock. She took a low and inside pitch from Prattville's Searcy Dudley and hammered it well over the temporary fence.

"That's where I like it," said Lindsey, an Ole Miss commitment.

She wasn't the only one seeing the ball well. Matos went 2-for-2 with two RBIs in the second game. Cherokee County's Kaitlyn Griffith went 3-for-4 in the two games, hitting a two-run homer and driving in three.

Sparkman's Sarah Suggs had a hit and a walk and Holley added three walks with her homer.

Sparkman's Tori Edwards got the win in the first game with two innings of no-run pitching.

She struck out three. Lindsey also pitched an inning of scoreless relief.

Alabama Christian's McKenzie Kilpatrick, an Auburn commitment, gave the South its lone offensive highlight with a solo homer in the first inning of the second game.

The South had just eight hits in the two games, with Satsuma's Laney Nichols and Saint Paul's Allie Pruitt having one apiece.